“Today, the central place of prosperity is knowledge. And while you can conquer oil fields by war, you don’t really get knowledge this way. But now that knowledge has become the most important economic resource, war has become less and less worthwhile, and it has increasingly been limited to parts of the world – such as the Near and Middle East and Central Africa – where old-fashioned material-based economies still predominate.”
– Yuval Noah Harari in “Homo Deus – A History of Tomorrow”, C.H. Beck Publishing
